Police ID man gunned down in deadly Houston dice game

Published 5:30 am, Thursday, April 19, 2007

Houston police identified the man who was shot to death during a dice game in southeast Houston on Wednesday night as 24-year-old Aaron Masters.

Investigators said Masters and several other men were shooting dice in front of a patio apartment on the 3300 block of Alabama about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when Masters won a large amount of cash on a single roll.

One of the players became upset, pulled out a semi-automatic handgun, shot Masters several times, and took the winnings from his hands, said Sgt. J.C. Padilla of HPD's homicide division.

Masters, who suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and arm, ran to his grandmother's home nearby and collapsed in the living room. He was transported to Ben Taub Hospital, where he died.

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The shooter escaped in a white Pontiac four-door sedan with Texas plates 029-JKM, Padilla said. He said witnesses described the man as a 20-to -25-year-old black man, possibly from New Orleans, nicknamed "Money." Investigators said he is about 5 foot 7, 160 to 170 pounds and has a tattoo on the right side of his neck reading "Florida Project." He was wearing jeans and a black and red baseball cap with the letter A printed on it and "Money" written on the side.